VMware vSphere VM iPXE Boot without DHCP
Network booting operating systems isn’t a new concept and has been around for years. Bare metal deployments are typically where
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HashiCorp Vault vSphere Authentication with VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)
HashiCorp Vault supports a number of authentication methods including methods that utilize what HashiCorp refers to as a “trusted platform”.
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Creating a VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) Golang Function
The VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) fling is a really interesting project that enables administrators to take advantage of event
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Moving to Morpheus Data
I have made the decision to become the director of technical marketing at Morpheus Data and I start that new
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Deployment Pipeline Chaos Engineering with StackStorm and ChaosToolkit
Chaos Engineering is the practice of experimenting or injecting faults into a system to test how the system responds to
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Identifying Active HashiCorp Vault Root Tokens
Revoking the root token on a production HashiCorp Vault deployment is one of the recommended best practices for securing an
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Detecting HashiCorp Vault Root Token Generation
HashiCorp Vault generates a default root token during installation and best practice dictates that the token should be revoked once
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Detecting HashiCorp Vault Root Login
Security of a HashiCorp Vault deployment is of paramount importance given the sensitive nature of the information contained within the
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Puppet Bolt Vault Inventory Plugin
In this blog post we’ll look at the HashiCorp Vault plugin for Puppet Bolt that enables authentication credentials for Bolt
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Puppet Bolt Terraform Inventory Plugin
HashiCorp Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that is used for provisioning virtual machines or cloud instances
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HashiCorp Packer Puppet Bolt Provisioner
Treating workloads as “cattle” or immutable is a popular management paradigm for stateless workloads and is especially prevalent for such
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Advanced VMware vSphere Template Orchestration
Template management is a critical facet of infrastructure management and traditionally one of the more challenging operations there is. The
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